Heavy rain from a major storm prompted evacuation warnings for communities near a Northern California river that forecasters say could break its banks Friday, as the system continued to dump heavy snow in mountainous areas where some ski resorts opened for the season.

The storm arrived in the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, killing two people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, mostly in the Seattle area, before moving through Northern California.

A third day of an atmospheric river storm has inundated Northern California and the Bay Area. For 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family.